Good afternoon, my reader. Proper care of strawberries is the key to a good harvest. One of the tasks of the gardener is the correct formation of the bush. Many summer residents are interested in what to do with a mustache on strawberry bushes. To answer this question, you first need to decide what the gardener needs in the first place: a rich harvest or planting material.
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When is the best time to trim the strawberry mustache
During the active growing season, that is, at the beginning and middle of summer, a mustache quickly forms on the strawberry bushes. Healthy and well-formed bushes are a guarantee of a good harvest of large and juicy berries, since they will spend their energy only on fruiting. In this case, the strawberry mustache must be removed twice a season, and in the fall the upper vegetative part of the bushes must be completely cut off.
Advice. To avoid damaging the plants, gardening tools must be sharp.
When a plant actively grows and develops, leaves and shoots with whiskers are formed. After intensive flowering, the antennae are completely removed. If there are not very many beds, then the whiskers that appear can be cut off daily.
Important. If this procedure is neglected, then the fruits will be deficient in nutrition and light. This will reduce the number of berries and spoil their taste.
When fruiting comes to an end, the growth of the whiskers increases again. At this stage, you need to trim again.
How to propagate strawberries with a mustache
For a good stable yield, it is recommended to renew the bushes on the strawberry plot every 3-4 years. To do this, gardeners leave part of the mustache, gradually removing old bushes. But in this case, the plants in the garden grow chaotically, which complicates the care process.
The ideal option would be to divide the strawberry beds into three parts:
- for mature bushes with good fruiting;
- for young plants that will replace old ones next year;
- for growing new planting material.
An easy way to get new seedlings is to breed strawberry whiskers. In this case, you can even experiment with the selection of young seedlings with good genetics. To do this, you need to mark especially fruitful bushes and cut off the mustache from them when they finish bearing fruit.
Experienced gardeners recommend taking the first-order mustache closest to the mother plant as planting material. Moreover, the more often you remove them from such bushes, the more you can get. But this should be done only in those areas that are intended for obtaining seedlings.
To get young bushes, you do not need to wait for them to take root in the soil. As soon as 2-3 leaves are formed, they can be cut off. Then you need to let them take root in pots with nutritious soil, which are placed in a greenhouse. With this method, the socket does not need to be buried deep in the ground, it is enough to slightly press it against it.
Advice. It is imperative to ensure that the soil moisture is moderate.
Young seedlings are planted from the greenhouse in open ground in August-September. This is best done in cool, cloudy weather. You need to water the plantings regularly until the plants adapt to the new conditions.
Trimming the strawberry mustache is an important agricultural technique. The main thing is to correctly trim the plant and properly care for the bushes after completing this procedure. If there is not enough time to carry out this manipulation, you can choose to grow varieties without a mustache, which breeders offer in large quantities.
Do you know why you need to trim a strawberry mustache?
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